EKC Crates for Malawi ....
16th
November 2016 (Wednesday)
.... 11.00 We have a lovely, ‘bright
and breezy’ morning .... breezy being
F4-5 from the Northwest, so it feels colder.
Is
colder! I have been to Leven to do some shopping,
hence the late ‘update’. The ‘plan’
is to do some walking after lunch, which will be ‘hard work’ because I have a
sore knee: I get the feeling the other
knee might have to re-placed soon. I’d
better put the kettle on; Jimmy will be
looking for a cuppa soon.
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| The 'team, filling crates ready to be forwarded to the C of S Mwandi Mission |
21.00 Jimmy did arrive for a cuppa, but only to
tell me that he was going to come back in the afternoon.
After
lunch I went out in Sooper Buggy fully intending to go for a walk up Balcarres
Den; out of the wind, and the showers
that have been scuttling over. For some
unknown reason I ended up going round the Elie Lighthouse and Lady’s Tower
walk;
exposed to the F7 gale... with
very little in the way of shelter if a shower did come my way. The walk certainly blew the cobwebs
away: but it was enjoyable, and I did
have the camera with me. That said, I
was glad when I got back to Ivy, and the kettle. Jimmy arrived at Ivy, just as the kettle
reached ‘the boil’, so we chatted, ate a few chocolates (won in the Guild CM
raffle), then discussed the merits of walking round the East Links in a
gale. There was one ‘merit that accrued
from the wind; it had dried up the paths,
which are usually wet, and muddy. Even
in a gale it is bonnie, but you have to find places from which to take
photographs: which I did.
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| Looking West from Woodhaven Bay, Elie |
Jings
I cannae believe it ... I’ve just had a migraine: probably triggered by the chocolates that
Jimmy and I had in the afternoon. Oh
well, an early night in bed... will clear that up. It’s a good night for getting off to bed
early... with the wind rattling
the windows, reminding me how cold it is
outside. Yes .... I’ll have my mug of
hot chocolate (sod the migraine) with, would you believe, English Honey in
it. It comes from “Littleover Apiaries”
in Derbyshire.
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| The Lady's Tower, Elie. |
The
weather forecast for tomorrow is much the same as it was today; windy, with a mix of sun and showers. We have the ‘drop in Cafe’ tomorrow... a
nice place to spend a hour chatting.
Photographs
: Top – the happy team filling two crates with much needed items, to be sent to the Church of Scotland Mission in Mwandi, via Malawi, Middle – Woodhaven Bay, East
Links Elie, and Bottom – Lady’s Tower Elie.
